Oddisee, DJ Jazzy Jeff - Gentrification lyrics

Uh yea what's up Cam?
Good looking out on this beat though
Cam be getting mad yall he be like
"Man what you want my beats for
You make your own beats"
This shit hot nigga!
Yea, I was gon rap about rapping
On this joint or something
Some generic shit about love
Or something like that but you know me
Yea just ride with us then

Did I mention I was from Largo?
Where niggas ride dirty with more green
In they whips than Wells Fargo
Yall know this whole side
Of the district When
Niggas move quick when they couch get evicted
Ouch they right with it they
House tax raised up
Gentrification on the rise they like "pay up"
It's no surprise when White
Folks is moving in
Cause they got the money and
Time to pursue the trends
Same trends be end of us pure
Mom and pops store replaced by Couture
Starbucks here and a Starbucks there
How much coffee you need my god it's unfair
They move away from the burbs
To escape the monotony
Bring along wit em they pilates and pottery
Classes and all that unfair shit
My city don't look the same
What a shame it's tragic

Oddisee "Yea, that shit is crazy though
Rockville niggas moving out the city out
To Peezy County and shit it's all good
Magic Johnson building us a new
Movie theater and shit
We got Bo Jangles you know what I'm saying
All niggas welcome all niggas will
Come all niggas accepted
Yea, Mo county now niggas out there too"

I heard niggas from the city is
Moving out to Mo county now
Section 8 relocating them to German Town
Aspen Hill too, Rockville, Wheaton
Tom and Jane move in and
Leeroy leaving Its something
To see when the authenticity of a city is
Replaced by college kids and hassadidiness
Urban decay making way for Ikeas
Luxury loss replacing with eye seers
And history lost my mother used to eat at
Ben's Chili Bowl when she
Was young and had love and on a date
And now I'm grown up and I
Grab a plate at the
Same place she used to congregate
And to me that's safe i can't fake shit
I don't eat there cause of inflation
The whites came in
I used to get a chilli dog with fries
For 5 but now I pay 10 they gotta pay rent
So now they raise the price
The you street takeover it's
The greatest heist
A major makeover and my people ain't included
We getting booted out the city
Like it's nothing to it

Uh, shit's wild man
Heard the same shit going up
In uh up in Harlem
Going on over in uh Chicago too man
Shit's crazy and you know when Hurricane
Katrina came through
In New Orleans they was glad
Washing all the niggas out
Then they gon help them help
Get they shit back together?
Hell naw man that shit boutta be
Ritzy down there man Haha
Same shit going on in Atlanta too
Up in Philly all the major cities yall
Yea just rock wit me